There’s a story in the New York Times where New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has released stats that have crime up in the city due to iDevice thefts:
“If you just took away the jump in Apple, we’d be down for the year,” said Marc La Vorgna, the mayor’s press secretary.
On the radio, Mr. Bloomberg said that Apple products appeared to be the preference for many thieves, noting that he was not including thefts of competing devices, like the Samsung Galaxy, in his count.
And he offered some practical advice for listeners, urging them to keep their devices in an interior, hard-to-reach pocket.
“Put it in a pocket in sort of a more body-fitting, tighter clothes, that you can feel if it was — if somebody put their hand in your pocket, not just an outside coat pocket,” the mayor said.
Having almost been iMugged several years ago, I can say that’s good advice.
One thing to note, it seems that Samsung could only wish to be that popular. After all, if your product is so popular that it is blamed for an increase in crime, that can’t be bad for business. But it is bad for crime stats and those who are victims of crime.
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NYC Mayor Says iDevice Thefts Have Increased Crime
There’s a story in the New York Times where New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has released stats that have crime up in the city due to iDevice thefts:
“If you just took away the jump in Apple, we’d be down for the year,” said Marc La Vorgna, the mayor’s press secretary.
On the radio, Mr. Bloomberg said that Apple products appeared to be the preference for many thieves, noting that he was not including thefts of competing devices, like the Samsung Galaxy, in his count.
And he offered some practical advice for listeners, urging them to keep their devices in an interior, hard-to-reach pocket.
“Put it in a pocket in sort of a more body-fitting, tighter clothes, that you can feel if it was — if somebody put their hand in your pocket, not just an outside coat pocket,” the mayor said.
Having almost been iMugged several years ago, I can say that’s good advice.
One thing to note, it seems that Samsung could only wish to be that popular. After all, if your product is so popular that it is blamed for an increase in crime, that can’t be bad for business. But it is bad for crime stats and those who are victims of crime.
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